Altia announced today the release of new XML import and export support within Altia Design.
Colorado Springs, Colo., September 9, 2005 – Altia, Inc., a Colorado-based software development company specializing in HMI (Human Machine Interface) and GUI (Graphical User Interface) development tools, announced today the release of its new XML export and Altia XML import capabilities for Altia Design. This new capability will give customers the ability to create data driven GUI’s without coding or compiling.
Users can create their GUI’s using Altia Design, an HMI/GUI development tool and Altia’s flagship product, using pre-built components or by creating their own components using graphic primitives or imported raster images. The XML output is a complete representation of all of the elements that comprise a GUI including behavior and stimulus. The completed GUI can be deployed using Altia’s runtime players for various operating systems.
The new XML features in Altia Design use the SVG standard with added Altia enhancements. The XML export is a complete description of a design which may satisfy documentation requirements. The exporter also generates an HTML summary of a design by automatically processing the XML output through a style sheet written in the extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL). A default style sheet is provided, but users can override the default style sheet with a custom style sheet to support their own unique documentation requirements.
Altia feels that data-driven GUI’s will be the standard methodology in future software projects. This approach allows graphic artists, system engineers, or software developers to create working user interfaces without writing or compiling a single line of code. This affords the users of Altia Design the benefits of reduced development costs, lower life cycle costs, and improved response to customer needs.
About Altia
In 1991, four Hewlett Packard embedded systems developers discovered a need for graphics tools to prototype instrumentation front panels. These engineers spun-off and founded Altia to develop products to meet this need.
Altia's mission is to simplify the process of developing embedded and desktop systems by providing a cohesive set of HMI and GUI development tools that can be used from concept to final code. This simplification minimizes the amount of graphics that are thrown away as developers move through the cycles in the development process. With Altia's tools, embedded programmers can build graphics much faster and cheaper and ultimately raise the quality of the embedded user interface. More than 2,000 licenses of the company's flagship product, Altia Design, have been sold worldwide.
Altia, Inc. is located at 5030 Corporate Plaza Drive, Colorado Springs, CO, 80919. Tel: 719-598-4299, Fax: 719-598-4392, Web: www.altia.com.
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